faith
fāTH/
noun
- 1.
complete trust or confidence in someone or something.
You have faith and/or confidence that god does not exist and it is complete until something concrete smashes into your forehead to dispute that faith.
Prove to me god does not exist and you can call it being an Athiest based on fact. However, if you cannot prove to me that god does not in fact exist then all you have is faith as well.
If you are not sure whether god exists or not and/or that proof cannot be produced then you are an agnostic. If you have faith that god does not exist not based on reality, rather just based on your perceptions and what other people have told you then you are just as indoctrinated as the OP. The point is that indoctrination to one person is fact to another person and it was what I was trying to point out from the beginning of this conversation.
For me, god either exists or he does not. My knowledge or lack thereof does not alter this reality.
Many people are angry at organized religion. That is not my problem just like slavery in America was not and is not my problem. I was not around when it was created and I never had anything to do with it.